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Boojums All the Way through
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Author(s):
N. David Mermin
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December 02 2009
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface
pp. 3
E pluribus boojum: The physicist as neologist
pp. 26
Commencement address, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, May 18, 1986
pp. 35
“One of the great physicists … and great characters”
pp. 38
My life with Landau
pp. 52
What's wrong with this Lagrangean?
pp. 57
What's wrong with this library?
pp. 63
What's wrong with this prose?
pp. 68
What's wrong with these equations?
pp. 74
What's wrong with these prizes?
pp. 81
Quantum mysteries for anyone
pp. 95
Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV?
pp. 110
Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum theory
pp. 177
A bolt from the blue: the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
pp. 186
The philosophical writings of Niels Bohr
pp. 190
The great quantum muddle
pp. 198
What's wrong with this pillow?
pp. 207
Cruel Nature: A relativistic tragicomedy
pp. 213
The amazing many colored Relativity Engine
pp. 243
Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light
pp. 247
Relativity without light
pp. 266
E = mc 2
pp. 281
Logarithms!
pp. 294
Stirling's formula!
pp. 304
Pi in the sky
pp. 306
Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory
pp. 309
Special functions: a group theoretic approach
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